Ingrid Halland
- E-mailingrid.halland@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 30 48
- Visitor AddressFaculty of HumanitiesSydnesplassen 75020 BergenRoom363A
- Postal AddressPostboks 78055020 Bergen
Ingrid Halland is an architecture historian and art critic. At the University of Bergen, she teaches 20th century architecture history and theory, as well as contemporary art theory, politics of aesthetics, and art historiography. Halland is also Programme Coordinator for Art History.
She is also associate professor II at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design where she teaches at the PhD programme.
Her research interests include: art and architecture from the 1960s and 1970s, contemporary art theory, material histories (in particular plastic, concrete, titanium dioxide), cybernetics/systems theory, environmental humaneties, continental philosophy/aesthetics, exhibition history, and museology.
Her academic work is published in journals such as Log, Aggregate, Journal of Design History, Arkitektur N, Kunst og kultur and Journal Nordic Museology, and her work as an art critic is published in art magazines, museum catalogues, and artist books. The book Ung Uro: Unsettling Climates in Nordic Art, Architecture & Design was published by Cappelen Damm Akademisk in 2021. She is also founder and editor-in-chief of Metode, a publishing platform by ROM for kunst og arkitektur.
Halland is the Principal Investigator of the research project «How Norway Made the World Whiter» funded by The Research Council of Norway (Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal), 2023 – 2028, and Co-Principle Investigator of the research project «The Materiality of White», led by Associate Professor Marte Johnslien, funded by Norwegian Artistic Research Programme (DIKU), 2022 – 2025.
Interview about Halland's upcoming research project 'Deep Surface: Rethinking Surfaces in the Age of Technology (c. 1900 – today) with Architecture and Design'
The article "'With-On' White: Inconspicuous Modernity with and on Aesthetic Surfaces, 1910–1950" by Ingrid Halland and Marte Johnslien is the first research publication on titanium white, and was published by Aggregate in January 2023.
I supervise MA projects in architectural history, design history, art from the 20th century, contemporary art, museology, art theory and art historiography.
Teaching Spring 2023
KUN256 Area Study with Bachelor's Thesis, topic spring 2023 'Athens'
KUN260 Modern and contemporary art, architecture, and visual culture, topic spring 2023 'The Politics of Contemporary Arts'
Teaching Fall 2022
KUN108 - Art, Architecture and Visual Culture 1950-today (was tought in English)
KUN254 Moderne og samtidskunst med bacheloroppgåve (topic fall 2022 'The Exhibition as Research')
Teaching Spring 2022
KUN106 - Art, Architecture and Visual Culture 1750-1950
KUN201 - Art Theory, Aesthetics and Historiography
- (2023). “With-On” White: Inconspicuous Modernity with and on Aesthetic Surfaces, 1910–1950. Aggregate.
- (2020). The Unstable Object: Glifo, Blow and Sacco at MoMA, 1972. Journal of Design History. 329-345.
- (2019). Being Plastic. Log.
- (2019). Arkitekturteoriens nye relevans. Arkitektur N.
- (2016). Hvor er nødutgangen? Spekulativ kunsthistorie i antropocen. Kunst og kultur. 208-217.
- (2016). (Re)working the Past, (Dis)playing the Future. Italy: The New Domestic Landscape at MoMA, 1972. Proceedings of DRS.
- (2013). Systematikk og kulturhistorie: Jens Thiis, Hans Dedekam og debatten om en utstillingsreform. Kunst og kultur. 92-103.
- (2023). Restless: Towards a New Art Ethics.
- (2022). Design, Anti-Design and Speculative Design, c. 1970 .
- (2022). Book launch conversation with Anna Ulrikke Andersen.
- (2021). Objective Enactive - Artist talk .
- (2021). How Norway Made the World Whiter.
- (2021). Crafting Design Theories for Change.
- (2021). A History of Systems and Ethics.
- (2021). Er byen en hjerne? Kybernetikk, globalisering og urbanisme ca. 1970.
- (2020). Systems of Delos: Biology, Urbanism, Epistemology.
- (2020). Negation and Speculation: On Critical Design.
- (2020). Deep Ecology: History, Theory, Ethics .
- (2019). Plattform for ung kunst og kritikk?
- (2019). Om Johanne Hestvolds 'Beholdere' og nyere kunstfilosofi.
- (2019). Klima for kritikk (arrangør av seminaret og leder av paneldebatt).
- (2019). Degrowth Tendencies of the Norwegian Deep Ecology Movement.
- (2018). (V)endepunkt. Kunst og tenkning etter postmodernismen.
- (2016). Microenvironments, 1972: Eleven Episodes About an Uncertain Future.
- (2016). Displaying the Future: A Journey Into the Unknown.
- (2023). Why surfaces, why now? Introduction to Metode's first volume 'Deep Surface' .
- (2021). Artist talk by Petrine Vinje: “Objective Enactive”.
- (2020). Livsfugen i Kristiansand.
- (2020). Fra hvitt til jord: Samtale med Marte Johnslien.
- (2020). Air Conditions: Marte Eknæs - Forms of Flexibility .
- (2023). From White to Earth.
- (2022). The Materiality of White.
- (2022). Material Withdraw: How Modernism Made the Surface Invisible.
- (2022). From White Modernism to Human Tissue: The Toxic Entanglements of Titanium Dioxide.
- (2021). White Entanglements: On Teaching Titanium White.
- (2021). From White Walls to Human Cells: The Surface Sustainability of Titanium Dioxide, 1916-Present .
- (2019). “The Universitas 1972: 'Radical Left' and 'Right-Wing Technocrats'”.
- (2019). Notes on Flexibility.
- (2019). Delos Ouroboros: Cybernetics/Brain/Epistemology.
- (2019). Are We Plastic? Art and Thinking After Plastic.
- (2019). Are We Plastic? Art and Thinking After Plastic.
- (2018). Why We Must Destroy the Environment.
- (2018). Notes on Ecology, Environmental Humanities, and Inescapabilty.
- (2018). Are We Plastic? On Speculative Design and Gaetano Pesce's Plastic Bunker from the Year 3072.
- (2018). 'Nothing better than a touch of ecology and catastrophe.' On Jean Baudrillard’s Attempt to Destroy the Environment, 1970.
- (2017). Plastic: Physical and Metaphysical Destructiveness.
- (2017). Hva er kunsthistorisk forskning? Om nyere tendenser i kunsthistoriefaget.
- (2017). Design og anti-design: Aktivisme, estetikk og politikk.
- (2017). Air Conditions: A Discussion on Architectural Aerodynamics.
- (2016). ‘The Vegetable Garden’ at MoMA, 1972: An Eco-Survival Device for the Anthropocene.
- (2016). Plastics and Plasticity: Gaetano Pesce in 1972, 2013 and 3000.
- (2016). (Re)working the Past, (Dis)playing the Future: The New Domestic Landscape, MoMA, 1972.
- (2015). What Can Theory Do?
- (2015). Utstillingens iverksettelseskraft. Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, MoMA, 1972.
- (2015). These machines are switched on.
- (2015). Power to the Object! Towards an Objectification of Exhibitions.
- (2013). Jens Thiis og Nordenfjeldske kunstindustrimuseum som aktører i den europeiske utstillingsreformen.
- (2012). Jens Thiis og Hans Dedekams utstillingsstrategier for kunstindustrimuseer.
- (2023). Artistic Research - A Paradox? On Methods and Communication with Ingrid Halland, Jakob Oredsson and Petrine Vinje.
- (2022). Kunsthistorie vs kunstnerisk forskning? .
- (2022). Ordet «kvit» er ikkje i seg sjølv rasistisk, sa professoren. Då vart det bråk. Khrono.no.
- (2021). Debatten går, kan man bytte navn på kunstverk? Tja, sier kunsthistorikere. Khrono.no.
- (2022). Design in museums 2022: Towards an ethical design aesthetic . Formkraft.
- (2022). Design i utakt. Morgenbladet.
- (2019). The Homogeneous Community. Kunstkritikk.no.
- (2019). Purisme nå. Kunstkritikk.no.
- (2018). Den norske popkunstens uventede kraft. Kunstkritikk.no.
- (2017). Museum Without Walls. Kunstkritikk International Edition.
- (2017). En verden uten kontinuitet. Kunstkritikk.no.
- (2016). Museumsforteljingar: Vi og dei andre i kulturhistoriske museum. Sigrid Lien og Hilde Wallum Nielssen . Kunst og kultur. 191-192.
- (2015). Ting og rom. Norvegiska Romá - Norske sigøynere på Oslo museum. Nordisk Museologi. 142-148.
- (2023). På sporet av den tapte fremtid: Intervensjoner i norsk urbanisme og modernisme . ROM forlag.
- (2021). Ung Uro: Unsettling Climates in Nordic Art, Architecture and Design. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
- (2018). A Square on a Sphere: Marte Johnslien. Uten tittel.
- (2012). Utstillingsreform: En studie av Jens Thiis og Hans Dedekams utstillingsstrategier for kunstindustrimuseer 1895-1905 .
- (2021). Den grønne kuben. Kunstkritikk.no.
- (2020). Relasjonell skulptur. Emosjonell kunstner. Kunsthåndverk.
- (2017). Air-condition er vår tids eksistensielle betingelse. Kunstkritikk.no.
- (2017). Når kunst blir bevis. Kunstkritikk.no.
- (2015). Spekulativt om Snorre-tegninger. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).
- (2022). Becoming with Architecture: Making the Abstracted Space through Works and Words.
- (2018). Error Earth: Displaying Deep Cybernetics in "The Universitas Project" and Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, 1972.
- (2023). – Akademikere har mye å lære av kunstfeltet.
- (2023). Vi seier ikkje at Noreg har lansert rasistiske haldningar.
- (2023). Sustainability needs to look differently.
- (2023). Livmorer og nanomaterialer.
- (2023). Går hardt ut mot media etter rasismefokus.
- (2023). Får 12 millioner skattekroner til å forske på hvordan Norge gjør verden «hvitere»: – Det aller tåpeligste jeg har sett noen gang.
- (2023). Fox News: «Norges regjering finansierer forskning for å finne ut om hvit maling er rasistisk.» – Upresis, svarer forskningsleder.
- (2023). Eit norsk industrieventyr endra utsjanaden på verda.
- (2022). Vil ha mer kunstnerisk forskning.
- (2022). Norway’s ilmenite: where history and innovation combine.
- (2022). I Sokndal kom inspirasjonen til det som ble et verdensfenomen: Nå startes forskningsprosjekt med millionbudsjett for å lære mer om oppfinnelsen.
- (2022). Er klimaprotestene negative for kunsten og museene? Nei, mener to kunsthistorikere .
- (2022). 'Hånden bag det hele' av Heidi Laura.
- (2018). Er Saccosekken farlig?
- (2019). Beholder: or, the Unthought’s Negation. An Essay on Johanne Hestvold’s Sculptures . 24 pages.
- (2018). (V)endepunkt: Plastikk og plastisitet i 1972/3072. 11 pages.
- (2014). Fra system til kontekst: En utstillingsreform på tvers.
- (2023). Displaying Deep Surfaces: Introducing a field and a method. Metode (online).
- (2021). Urban Ecologies After A.I.
- (2019). Unbroken Return.
- (2019). Notes on Flexibility: On Radical Inflatables, Design Thinking, and Marte Eknæs' 'Air Body'.
- (2023). 2001: En speiderodyssé .
- (2018). A Square on A Sphere.
- (2015). Norwegian Design.
- (2023). Fremtidens utdannelsesinstitusjon. Vagant.
- (2019). Kunstfilosofi etter relasjoner. Contemporary Art Stavanger.
- (2020). Forskning for alle. Kunstkritikk.no.
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Principal Investigator of the research project «How Norway Made the World Whiter». Funded by The Research Council of Norway (Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal), 2022 – 2027
Co-Principle Investigator of the research project «The Materiality of White», led by Associate Professor Marte Johnslien. Funded by Norwegian Artistic Research Programme (DIKU), 2022 – 2025